Watercolor Doodle Card Ideas for Father's Day & More!
You will love the Watercolor Doodle Card Ideas for Father’s Day. Easy to doodle and paint, personalized for the father figures in your life.
Servings: 1 Watercolor Wash Doodle Card
Cost: $1
Equipment
- water container
- Scissors
Ingredients
- watercolor paper
- permanent black marker
- envelopes (an A2 envelope is one size option)
- watercolor paints and brush
- paper towels
- copy paper (optional)
- scissors
Instructions
- Whether you are a doodler or if you aren’t, it may be fun just to practice doodling a little bit.Grab a piece of paper and a pen or a pencil and just start making some doodle patterns anywhere on the paper. Next draw little designs on top of those shapes and objects.Then fill the space in between the objects. Use lines, plaids, swirls, seashell shapes, zigzag lines and polka dots! Look around you for inspiration. Invent your own pattern shape with your own new motif!
- It’s best to use watercolor paper to make this card because the watercolor wash we will do uses quite a bit of moisture, and the paper will hold up better.I use a paper cutter or draw lines with a ruler and cut the paper to size with a scissors.You can cut your paper to any card size you want if you plan to give it without an envelope or make your own envelope (here is a link to a post on How to Make Envelopes Three Ways, the link is also found below).I like cutting my paper down to 8.5-inches by 11-inches in size and then cutting it in half to make two pieces.
- Take the card and make your black line doodle drawing on the front surface of your card with a permanent marker.It is important that you use a permanent black marker for your doodle as we will be using watercolor over it and a water-based marker will smear. I usually have a little plan for a doodle in mind and start right in drawing with my fine line black permanent marker.But you can make a pencil drawn outline of doodle areas if you want (optional). Do remember to use an eraser after coloring over them with black permanent marker though.This card I'm making is for Father’s Day so it is going to say “DAD” in bubble letters that are as big as possible. Watch on the video for how I make the letters. After each letter was done it got decorated differently. One was a plaid design, one had a clamshell design, and one got tube like lines and polka dots! Lastly the background space will get a doodle design to fill it up as well. On my card there were swirls and lines with little dots and such radiating out of the word.
- Next let’s have some fun making a watercolor wash over the black line doodling on our card.A watercolor wash involves wetting the surface of the paper with clean water. Then dropping watercolor paint into the water on the card to spread. This creates a blended full color look that is not detailed or controlled exactly. it always reminds me of a stained glass window.Give a thought to the colors you would like to feature on your card. It's good to use contrast colors to make certain parts of the card "pop" out and catch attention.
- Get some clean water in a cup. Use a paintbrush to wet the surface of your card that is doodled. The surface of the watercolor paper should be wet but not have puddles of water.With a wet paintbrush, load the brush with watercolor paint in a color of your choice. Touch every area of the card where you want this color. Watch it spread. Isn’t this cool?Wash out the paintbrush and repeat this step with other colors of paint. Be sure to wash out the brush between each color.Stop adding color when you are pleased with how the colors have spread over the card.
Video
Notes
Note: Don’t “paint” the card, brushing over the surface a lot. Touch the brush to the wet water on the card and let the paint spread.
Experiment with the doodling and the watercolor wash.